neighbourhood in Amsterdam

Vogelbuurt-Zuid

4,075 residents · postal code 1021 · Part of IJplein/Vogelbuurt, Amsterdam

Bottom 43% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

Property values in Vogelbuurt-Zuid are above the national median, and still wealth & income gets no further than a 4.5. Social assistance per thousand residents here runs at ten times the Dutch middle, and more than half of households are on a low income. So two components of the same pillar point in opposite directions.

Noise is ten decibels above the national median and under a third of the surroundings are green. That is where the quiet & nature score of 3.2 comes from, at over twelve thousand residents per square kilometre.

The families pillar reaches an 8.8 with school, supermarket and restaurant all within three hundred metres — though of those three only the school counts towards this score.

no. 7,571 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 239 of 454 in Amsterdam

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Is Vogelbuurt-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

36.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

4.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.4 per 1,000

Property crime

15.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 231 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

0.3 km

GP practice

0.5 km

Train station

4.9 km

Restaurant

0.2 km

Hospital

3.2 km

Café

0.3 km

Library

1.0 km

Motorway ramp

3.7 km

Tick = Dutch median

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Wealth & income

What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.

Property value

€ 460,000

Welfare recipients

81.0 per 1,000

High incomes

13%

Low incomes

51%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

20%

Social housing

70%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

Built after 2000

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

12,704 inw/km²

Noise level

61 dB

Green surroundings

30%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

3,304

Fine particles (PM2.5)

9.0 µg/m³

Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.

Tick = Dutch median

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

29%

Childcare

0.5 km

Secondary school

0.5 km

Residents under 15

14%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Vogelbuurt-Zuid has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 34%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1514%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4534%
NL median 22%
45–6525%
NL median 28%
65+13%
NL median 22%

Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.

Average household size
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
51% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
29% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
12,704 — far more densely populated than average
NL median 2,364

Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.

Frequently asked questions

Is Vogelbuurt-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Vogelbuurt-Zuid comes out at 36 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Vogelbuurt-Zuid is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Vogelbuurt-Zuid?

In Vogelbuurt-Zuid the police recorded 231 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (36 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.

How is the grade for Vogelbuurt-Zuid calculated?

Vogelbuurt-Zuid scores 5.7 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Vogelbuurt-Zuid lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.